The Theater of the Trial with Richard Gabriel and Katherine James — TCD Sidebar
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🗓️ 9 February 2022
⏱️ 54 minutes
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In this episode of True Crime Daily The Sidebar Podcast: Katherine James and Richard Gabriel join host Joshua Ritter to discuss the undefined elements of psychology and behavior that affect everyone in the courtroom and beyond. They discuss trial management, witness preparation, and the process of jury selection from the opening statements all the way through closing arguments. Stay tuned until the end of the episode to hear how these concepts work in actual cases and how the theater of the trial can affect the outcome.
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| 0:00.0 | The views information or opinions expressed in this podcast are solely those of the individuals. |
| 0:05.2 | This content is not intended to malign or disparage any organization, group, or individual. |
| 0:10.9 | Hello and welcome to True Crime Daily's The Sidebar, taking you inside the courtroom of high profile |
| 0:16.3 | and notorious cases from across the country. I'm your host Joshua Ritter. I'm a criminal |
| 0:21.5 | defense attorney based here in Los Angeles and previously a prosecutor with the L.A. District |
| 0:25.9 | Attorney's Office for nearly a decade. We are recording this on Monday, February 7, 2022, |
| 0:32.9 | and I'm very excited to say that today we are joined by Katherine James and Richard Gabriel, |
| 0:39.2 | two consultants who work in the field of trial management, jury selection, and the undefined |
| 0:44.8 | elements of psychology and behavior that affect everyone in the courtroom and beyond. |
| 0:49.4 | And that's what we're going to be talking about today. So welcome to you both. |
| 0:52.6 | Thank you. Thanks, Josh. Before we get into it, please tell us a little bit about your |
| 0:58.2 | background and what your practices consist of today and Katherine will start with you. |
| 1:03.3 | Sure. My background is I'm a classically trained reputory actress and I discovered that theater |
| 1:10.8 | and the law met when I was 25 and knew everything. And now I'm almost 70. There's a lot of things |
| 1:18.2 | that I don't understand about the world's works. But you know, when I was brave and fearless and |
| 1:23.7 | knew everything, I came up with this concept of how to take what I knew as an actress, a writer, |
| 1:31.6 | and a director in the theater and apply it to trials. And I've been thinking since. |
| 1:38.9 | I love that. And it is a theater. We're going to get into a lot more that soon to come, but that's |
| 1:44.0 | the best way of thinking about it. Richard, how about yourself? Sure. Well, people ask me this |
| 1:48.5 | question all the time. And for the most part, the easiest answer I say, well, my mother's a judge, |
| 1:54.5 | my dad's a psychologist. I do have some theater training with Katherine. So it's kind of like I was |
| 1:59.6 | meant to be in this thing. I've been doing this for 36 years. I kind of actually met Katherine |
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